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Example 25-189
Meit bla im bin singat la im na.
Meit
mate
bla
dat
/
poss
im
3sg
bin
pst
singat
sing.out
la
loc
im
3sg
na.
now
His mate called out to him then.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the use of an adpositional phrase with a pronominal NP as possessor.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Adpositional phrase following the possessum
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